December Bandsters

[bkwalling 0]

Yes B-man I have remained the same weight for a few days as well I sometimes feel like what am I doing wrong but I think my body just thinks this lady is starving

thanks for the kind words everyone

I will go see my doc today and find out how I am doing

okay is anyone else hating tv commercials I am last night pizza hut was on 100 times in like two hours making me starve to death

I have tivo at home and always fast forward through the commercials but was at moms and she doesn't have tivo

I LOVE MY TIVO now more than ever I hate fast food commercials and I now realize how many times I ate unhealthy because of senseless cravings

I am going shopping after my doc's appt maybe I can be down a size

I am ready for a NSV!!!!!!!!

carol I love your nsv how neat

[StephC 0]

hi guys - just updating my ticker and want to see if it worked.

[StephC 0]

My goal is a little higher BMI then most - I'm thinking that I might change it once I get to it. Its hard to remember being that size and what I'll look like now at my age. I think 126 seems so small to me - my 16 y/o is a size 6 at that and I'm an inch taller then her. My other daughter is closer to 150 and she is a 8 or 10 and it just seemed more realistic. Guess I'll know when I get closer to it.

[StephC 0]

ok - I changed my goal from 150 to 140 and that put me in the "normal" BMI group - I know I'm nuts. But I think 140 is very do-able.

[nikki32 0]

hiya all ive been catching up on your posts

bman....my hunger returned quickly too i was so pissed off,but then when you think how little we are eating now its amazing and i eat when im hungry a little bit of Soup or small yoghurt drink satisfys hunger and im feeling much healthier now im eating better last week i felt so weak and exhausted.dont worry about weight loss we all differ i had great loss last week but have gained 2lb back today but i know im not eating enough to gain so it just fluctuating and im not stressed i will have normal weigh in on saturday and that the one that will count it not a race for me i have target of 12 months and if it happens b4 its a bonus

karen....im in ireland andwe at same stage even xmas dinner similar..lol

the advise you have been given sounds very similar to mine (i didnt get my own needle though:confused: )i have phone number for nurse 24/7 but i think its for advice really and the clinic about an hour from house so im hoping i never have to be rushing to them im hopeful for no problems..but then im an optimist

kay...you sound like you doing great

sweethot....as i said to bman i have the hunger too but remember whilst you are letting your band settle and heal you should have the things you are allowed if you really hungry ...im still trying to work out difference between head hunger and body hunger though:confused: i think it hard to stay positive if you so hungry you feel like its torture.

bkwalling...well done on weight loss thats fab, i lost 14lbs first week but now it fluctuating but i know whats going in and its not alot so im not worrying...congrats im wishing you well you doing great :clap2:

mypov..well done on those jeans honey nothing feels quite as good as zip going up without a fight..lol

i have four decreasing sizes waiting in bottom of wardrobe,my jeans that were tight fit now but its not as glorious as the realisation that you dropped a size .

transformer....you are sooo right about this being first xmas without the real chance of big weight gain we may all be losers for the new year its great being a loser eh!!!

oh and about excercise hubby bought me a twist stepper to tighten my ass and tame those flabby thighs:rolleyes although when i have money again probably end of january i will join gym and swim loads.

kathyb...fab weight loss whoo hoo !!!

carol...size 24 ...to size 20 wow 2 sizes down way to go girl:clap2:

nathalie......hope you doing ok babes thinking of you

[nikki32 0]

stephc...i knew i would forget someone and you post so often i dont know how i could have, you doing great and i love that you decided to change goal i can feel your optimism rising in the fact that you will achieve yopur goal and your just wondering where the end line will be ..good for you im 5ft 8 and im giving myself goal of 168 and il work from there i havent been there in a very very very long time.

[Kaydotrn 1]

Morning Ladies,

Just a quick post-I am off to the mall with the kids.

Just want to mention that evaporated skim milk is great to add to Soups, coffee, cream of wheat or whatever youwant to cream up and thicken. I used it yesterday for my creamy Soup and today I added it with a scoop of unflavored Protein powder(yuk) to my cream of wheat to get it really thin and soupy. It has 1g or Protein per tablespoon. In my cream of wheat I used a packet of splenda, about 1/2 scoop of Protein powder (8gm protein) and 4T of evap. skim milk (4gm) making a prety protein free meal into a 12gm protein meal. Next time I will use the whole scoop of powder. I was afraid it would taste nasty. A little shake of cinnamon and it was a yummy and filling meal for under 200 cals. I am using fitday to track my intake and I am averaging 550 cals and 40gm of protein a day. My appetite is getting better though so I hope to be able to get more protein in.

welcome janmack!hope you are feeling well.

mystique-congrats on the xmas gift. Good luck on that tight butt youwill be getting!

transformer-I meant to thank you yesterday for the encouragement. I do feel lucky that this will be the first xmas I am not gaining!

Have a good day all!!!!

[transformer 1]

The site for you to also look at is:

http://www.lapbandlifestyle.com/Pages/LapBandLifestyleRulesroad.shtml

Karen AR-Thank you very much for the sites you provided. I haven't had a chance to do much "surfing" to find these types of sites since my surgery due to the hoopla of the holidays and all!

KayDotRn-Thanks for the tip about the evaporated milk. I'm going to try that with my Tomato Soup today. Yum!

Congrats to all on so many wonderful NSVs! Keep it up!

I have found it very interesting to read about the wide variety of experiences that everyone has been going through--I've read postings from people in Australia, England, Ireland, Germany, the US, etc. It sounds like some folks were hardly given any information about what to eat after surgery and I feel SO badly when I read about them being so hungry or in so much pain when it doesn't have to be that way. I just want to reach through the screen to give them a big hug and tell them it'll be okay!

I'm glad that these boards exist so all of us can share what we know in the hopes of helping out someone who's having a tough time. I realize now that I was truly blessed with an outstanding team of people at my surgery center who have kept me flying high (so far)! :plane: I feel very spoiled, indeed!

By the way, my ex-husband, who drove me back and forth to have this weight-loss surgery a week ago, thought it would be okay to give me two boxes of cordial cherries because I could "nibble a hole in the chocolate and suck out the liquid filling." Sigh! :faint: Thought you'd all get a kick out of THAT one! Suffice to to say that both boxes have a hot date with a big old trash bin!

Congratulations to everyone who has managed to fend off all of their well-meaning relatives who tried to derail your healthy eating plans over Christmas! You all have "bands of steel!" Now we just have to survive New Year's...

[smithkr1 0]

Hello and Happy New You to all my fellow December bandsters. Well I'm exactly 1 week post-op today and on cloud nine. Before showering this morning I just had to do it....stepped on the scales...Day of surgery (the 20th) was at 235...this morning 221!!!! Wish they had a smilie on here that was turning sumersaults and doing flips...cause that's exactly how it feels. Also, getting to make some of that wonderful sounding runny cream of wheat. woo hoo!

[ddee 0]

Everyone seems to be in the most positive of moods and that's contagious! So good to get back on the web to read the posts. I think my hubby is beginning to think I have a lover on the web. He's started sitting in my spot on the couch where I do my computer work. (Laptop) I'm enjoying the fact he knows I exist again; normally he's glued to the tv. for hours and I end up munching from the kitchen. Now, I grab the laptop and visit with you all.

Karen I enjoy your posts from the UK. I am a British lit. teacher from MS so I appreciate your English references.

I actually had the hiatal hernia repaired at the same time of the band surgery. My return to work will be later due to the incision from navel to the ...well, panty-line.

I am still finding it impossible to get the Ticker transported from the factory to this site. I highlighted from img - img and pasted, but my ticker didn't past. By the way, what is our "signature" line? Help?!#

Dianne

[StephC 0]

smithkr1 - they aren't smilies but will bananas do?

:)

WTG!

[bkwalling 0]

I am about to leave to go to the doctors office

wish me luck I will let yall know what he says

[ddee 0]

Ok, I'm in the process of trying to get the ticker thing. I pasted under the edit your signature, and saved the sig. so let's see if it worked.

Dianne

[carol453 0]

Thanks everyone for the support. I don't know about everyone else but I couldn't make it with out all your support. Life goes on dispite not being able to eat a large bag of chips doesn't it. I'm not sure if I mentioned this but my husband has been battling cancer for the second time in 2 years and he is now out of chemo and taking radiation. Many times this has been pretty stressful and you guys have gotten me through it. The day of my surgery DH had to go for a pet scan to see if the cancer had spread. All the messages you sent helped to keep me focused on one thing at a time. My husband is doing well for now and I am doing great. This is the kind of friends you only hope for. Well enough for my sappy self. I think all of us need to pat our self on the back not only for our hard work but our compassion and kindness to each other. I know this coming year we will be the biggest losers of all. love you guys!!!

[sweethot143 2]

Carol-I'm so happy your husband is doing well!

Ok, so today I go to the mideval times hospital where my surgery was preformed. I had an appointment, I talked to the Dr. on Friday and Saturday, both days he told me to come in at noon. I drive 3 hrs to get there. I arrive, the office is closed!! So I have the front desk call someone and they tell me to go to the floor where I stayed after my surgery. I get up there and they are shocked to see me!1

Where is dr. Matcovich? Noone knows! Why you here? You stay again?

um no!! I need these freakin staples removed, the dr. said to come today.

So after an hour wait, and an old lady screaming profanities in german at me becuase "you have no Deutche in Deutchland?" Meaning why don't i speak german and I live in Germany?? I have only been here 4 months!! So she yelled stuff at my husbnad and I and 2 toddlers for about 45 mins.

Finally a nurse comes to get me with a big cart of stuff, on the cart is a tool that looks like pliers. I'm scared.

So i go in the office, not even a hospital room, it's the office with their extra shoes and scrubs. I lay on this makeshift table, it's kind of dark in here, she rubs me with alcohol, and then proceeds to rip out my staples!!!!!

Ok, rip them out, literally, it was excruciating, I cried and screamed, i'm sure the entire floor heard me.

One got really really stuck, she had to get an extra pair of pliars, put her foot up on a chair and rip. ohhhh my goodness, that hurt. hurt.

I said, why am I stapled? Why am I not glued and taped, like everyone else I know who got this surgery.

Because you are human, you are not car, we do not tape a human.

wow, mideval times for sure.

So that was my staple removing experience. I go back next monday for i don't know what to see the dr. I will call ahead of time to make sure they remember that I am coming.

How was everyone elses day?? or is your day, since i'm 6 hrs. ahead.